Parmigiano
"parmigiano" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Parmigiano” is uncommon English (frequency #97,415 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,415
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of Parmigiano-Reggiano (“parmesan cheese”).
Corpus desk
Index EN-parmigiano · Parmigiano · English
Parmigiano · rank #97,415 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,415
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH paroxetine
Nearest frequency peer: paroxetine (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “Parmigiano”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- panadol
panadol
2,590 corpus weight
- panicum
panicum
2,589 corpus weight
- Parmigiano
Parmigiano
2,586 corpus weight
- paroxetine
paroxetine
2,585 corpus weight
- Parthia
Parthia
2,583 corpus weight
- passim
passim
2,581 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Parmigiano” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Parmigiano |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #97,415 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Parmigiano” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Parmigiano is uncommon English at frequency #97,415 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonym of Parmigiano-Reggiano (“parmesan cheese”).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Parmigiano in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is Parmigiano, spelled P-A-R-M-I-G-I-A-N-O.
Definition
- 1Synonym of Parmigiano-Reggiano (“parmesan cheese”).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Parmigiano appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I can only say what happened when I pressed my face to a wheel of ten-year Parmigiano, how in a burst of grass and ripe pineapple I stood in some green meadow that existed only in the resonance, like a bell’s fading peal, of that aroma.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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